How do I use a pencil to draw (Cartoon style in particular)?
I love looking at animation (Disney, cartoons from pre-Disney, Hana-Barbara, Warner Bros) and have since I was a kid. I’m an old man now and suspect I’ve gotten a lot of bad habits, but I’d like to be able to draw. I’m not shy of images in my head, but I can’t ever seem to get them on paper.
In particular, I always seem to have problems getting sharp, clear, smooth and controlled lines on paper when I’m using a pencil.
Can anyone offer any advice?
First, you don’t hold your pencil the way you do when you write. You want to keep your wrist and hand still and use your upper arm muscles. Look up contours and contour drawings. That’s what great artists do whether they are Jim Dine or George Gately or Albert Uderzo. You don’t draw outlines. Outlines are abstraction based on what we see, not what is there. They are made up of where we see the edges of objects meet the space around them. In point of fact we are seeing one thing where there are four or five things or more, and if you try to draw those four or five things you will get a better feel of what you are looking at than if you draw that abstraction outline — it’s not real.
Cartooning is drawing, only exaggerated, so drawing classes can be very helpful. Remember that we are seeing finished products, so often there are very messy preparatory sketches which the artists go through first. A drawing class can be VERY helpful, both in learning how to hold a pencil and in learning how to clean up your drawing so it looks sharp clear and smooth because it is probably the result of a lot of hard work and false starts.
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